Growing up in Montevideo
February 19th 2011 Dear reader
In the 1950s, when Guapo was in primary school in Montevideo,, the classrooms were co-ed, but the playground segregated. He was a pupil at the old British School in Pocitos and remembers the playground divided by a wall, with one area for the girls, the other for the boys. An archway patrolled by teachers connected the two. If a boy misbehaved, he would be sent into the girls’ play
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